STRIKE WATCH: What you
need to know
Check for services still open
and updates on the city workers' strike in our Town Hall guide
Federal
frugality costing Games: alliance
Don’t
expect any extra banners, flags and decorations or advertising hype
about the Canada Summer Games — there’s no money.
Queen
Mother celebrates 101st
LONDON — The Queen
Mother, her spirits undimmed by recent illness, chatted happily
yesterday with many of the thousands of admirers who gathered to
celebrate her 101st birthday.
Former
foundry workers to sue
SARNIA — Unhappy and
ill from what they claim is unheeded health damage from asbestos
exposure, former Holmes Foundry workers and neighbours want to sue
federal, provincial and local governments for $500 million.
Caribana’s
reputation crossing borders
TORONTO — When
13-year-old Razia Walli goes back to New Jersey, what will she tell
her friends about Caribana?
Queen
Mum marks 101st
Hers is a life that has
spanned a century of modern history.
Billions
of aphid bugs threatening soy crops
Billions
of tiny green aphids have become a gigantic problem for Southwestern
Ontario's drought-plagued soybean growers.
Prince
Charles leaves hospital after being knocked unconscious in polo
fall
Prince Charles left the hospital, a day
after falling from his horse and losing consciousness during a
charity polo match.
Opening
ceremonies feature music, glitter, history
lesson
With eight days to the Canada Summer
Games opening ceremonies and more than 2,000 tickets still available
for the event, Games organizers cracked the lid of secrecy on the
opening night gala.
Fast
fire causes $30,000 damage
A London woman
returned home to discover a fire had started soon after she left the
house with her three children and the family cat.
Ferry
across Erie planned for fall
A seafaring
businessperson with a multi-million-dollar plan to establish a ferry
route between Port Stanley and the United States says ships could
set sail as early as the fall.
Camera
under surveillance
Ontario's Information and
Privacy Commission says police are within the law to use a camera to
monitor a London Hells Angels clubhouse.
Survivor
recounts Snowbird collision
Only twice --
for fractions of a second as he struggled to stay afloat with
excruciating injuries -- did Sgt. David Wilson think he might
die.
Angels
allege privacy breach
The Hells Angels say
they're being illegally monitored by police and they've put up a
message on the billboard outside their York Street clubhouse to
protest.
Aylmer
seven relishing normal home life
Toys
sprinkle the yard now.
Driest
July
The London area's brown lawns and
parched crops tell the story of July's record-breaking dry
weather.
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End
of an era
Canada Trust, which taught the big
banks a thing or two about retail banking, begins a new chapter.
SMOG
ALERT: Small solutions to a major
problem
Reducing air pollution can be as
simple as making sure your car’s tires are inflated correctly.
Nowhere
to run, nowhere to hide
It’s a pretty town,
a friendly town.
'Tonight
someone is going to die'
A four-week
coroner's inquest into the shooting death of David Melzer has
ended.
Case
exposes city’s dark side
The man known as
Clifford Pogue finished an overtime shift and settled into his
apartment over a scuba diving shop.
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Streets under construction in
London:
Dark
clouds stay away from this guy
"There's
nothing to doing the weather," said my friend, the journalism
professor.
AT
CITY HALL: Negotiating games threaten Canada
Games
And so a pall has settled over the
city.
Garbage
collectors will meet you halfway
We bought
our riverside home during a 1982 slump in the real estate
market.
AT
CITY HALL: Stonehenge opened, not a Druid in
sight
"Was that a graveyard we just drove
through, Maude?"
Summer
dog days are dangerous
I used to secretly
watch the boy each day, sitting a few seats ahead of me on the
school bus.
AT
CITY HALL: Give Londoners accurate
numbers
There's a much better way for city
hall to demonstrate whether the demands of its striking outside
workers are fair and reasonable.
AT
CITY HALL: Stonehenge, the strike and
sombreros
This week’s edition of the city
hall notebook is a veritable bonanza for tourists.
Vets
victims of bungling bureaucrats
Every year,
governments in this country spend billions of tax dollars equipping
themselves with the fanciest computer gadgetry other people’s money
can buy.
Let’s
weed out those Marxist polluters
The most
remarkable thing about the moving riots known as anti-globalization
protests is how seriously many adults and the media take them.
Teen
rebels, another place, another time
It was
April Fool's Day -- and a wonderfully warm and sunny one at that. In
fact, from our first-floor, Grade 12 English classroom it was the
kind of irresistible day that beckoned youths, awash in a spring
cocktail of idleness and testosterone.
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Werewolves
lose their bite
The London Werewolves sailed
through the first four innings last night.
Jays
throw Hamilton out
Joey Hamilton believes
his surgically repaired pitching shoulder has something left to
give.
'Wolves
hitters feast on Otters
The struggling
London Werewolves offence found its bite last night.
Carter
signs a six-year, $94-million US contract extension with
Raptors
Vince Carter made his decision to
remain a Toronto Raptor much the way he plays — with his instincts,
and with grace.
Astacio
to Astros, Urbina to Red Sox in deadline
deals
Pedro Astacio, Ugueth Urbina and a
bevy of bullpen arms changed teams, with pitching at a premium as
contenders scrambled to beat baseball's trade deadline.
Raptors
to sink claws in Carter
The window to keep
Vinsanity in Toronto for years to come opens tomorrow.
Eddie
vows his Majors will return
Arden Eddie says
his mom and dad didn't raise a quitter.
American
cyclist Lance Armstrong wins third straight Tour de
France
Lucky for Lance Armstrong that he was
wearing the brilliant yellow jersey of the Tour de France
leader.
Rascals
sweep ’Wolves
The London Werewolves’ latest
slump has manager Bruce Gray wondering if his team can buy a
break.
Games
will be 'great,' McBean predicts
Now is not
the time to panic over a slump in 2001 Canada Summer Games ticket
sales, Olympic gold-medal rower Marnie McBean says.
'Keep
focus on Games'
Canada Summer Games
organizers want Londoners to start thinking tickets, not
pickets.
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The
pleasures of the Pinery
PINERY PROVINCIAL
PARK — “When I was a kid” is one of the most commonly heard phrases
here.
TABLE
FOR TWO: At Richie's, he's just Joe
From
Monday to Thursday, they call him Mr. Fontana.
Office
wear with a casual flair
Summer heat and
humidity can cause a fashion meltdown, leaving many men uncertain
about how casually they can dress for work and what clothes are
truly office appropriate.
Nutritionist
offers food for thought
Harvard's Dr. Walter
Willett may not be able to show his face among nutritionists once he
gets on the circuit to talk about his new book, Eat, Drink and Be
Healthy (Simon and Schuster).
A
tale of two cities
The view from a London
bridge is always refreshing.
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HIGHLIGHTS: Hot stuff
Whether it's the air
in the balloons, the ribs on the grill or the new movies in city
theatres, things are heating up this weekend in London
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Chemical
pairing creates great comedic Rush (Hour
2)
Crackling chemistry: Jackie Chan and
Chris Tucker have it big time.
Just
monkeying around
It's part of Mark
Wahlberg's cocky "street" upbringing that he enjoys digging into
people he likes.
The
sound of Cynthia
Cynthia Dale had to climb a
few emotional mountains before she agreed to star in The Sound of
Music.
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Traveller
complaints over airline service reach new altitude, figures
suggest
Airline passenger anger is growing,
suggest figures for the first seven months of this year compiled by
a federal agency tracking customer complaints.
Appeal
court denies Microsoft request for antitrust 'commingling'
rehearing
An appeals court refused to
reconsider its decision that Microsoft illegally mingled its Windows
operating system and Internet browser, handing the software giant a
setback in its four-year-old antitrust battle with the
government.
Air
Canada cutting 4,000 more jobs after losing $108 million in
Q2
Air Canada is eliminating 4,000 more jobs
as part of a multi-pronged plan to get back in the black by next
year and keep customers happy.
No
way to predict when economy will pick up again, finance minister
says
Finance Minister Paul Martin says that
while he's confident the Canadian and U.S. economies will recover
from the current slowdown, it's "a mug's game" to try to predict
when that might happen.
Plenty
of economic news this week, but little of it good, say
analysts
Expect a mixed bag of economic news
this week, analysts warn: from not very good, to not so bad, to
really quite bad.
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Market
regulators fine Air Canada more than $1 million for early
disclosure
Air Canada has been fined more
than $1 million in settling a disclosure case with stock market
regulators in Ontario and Quebec, who accused the airline of giving
13 analysts an early warning of lower profits last fall.
JDS
Uniphase loses $50.6 billion US in fiscal year, will cut 7,000 more
jobs
JDS Uniphase Corp. will cut 7,000 more
jobs worldwide, including an unspecified number in Canada, as the
world's biggest supplier of fibre-optic components grapples with an
industry slowdown that spawned a staggering $50.6-billion US loss in
the past year.
OPEC
agrees to cut output
In a surprisingly swift
move, OPEC cut its oil production to sop up rising worldwide
supplies and prop up sagging prices.
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